c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." — C. S. Lewis
"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything." — William J. Clinton
"My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways." — Kerri Walsh
"I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'" — Heather Morris
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." — Clarence Darrow
"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important." — Roberto Benigni
"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." — Konrad von Gesner
"Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice." — Ernest Thompson Seton
"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude." — Ed McMahon
"A mother who is really a mother is never free." — Honore de Balzac
"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone." — Charles de Gaulle
"Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now." — Knute Rockne
"I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust." — Jake Pavelka
"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it." — Rachel Hunter
"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world." — Rutherford B. Hayes
"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it." — Doris Day
"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people." — Tom Clancy
"The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design." — Venus Williams
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks." — Michael Symon
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else." — James M. Barrie
"I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions." — Jim Sensenbrenner
"When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football." — Mario Balotelli
"For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight." — Allen West
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global." — Mike Mills
"People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period." — Lee Scott
"You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now." — Jeff Bridges
"I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do." — Sarah Chalke
"But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer." — Jay Chiat
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." — Mao Zedong
"God's desire is that we excel." — Joel Osteen
"In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian." — Sugar Ray Leonard
"Happiness does not consist in self-love." — Joseph Butler
"You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude." — Don Rickles
"As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset." — David Alan Grier
"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." — John Dryden
"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other." — Steve Irwin
"Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top." — Chili Davis
"India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country." — Anita Desai
"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks." — Thomas Fuller
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams." — Ashley Smith
"Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important." — Yuri Milner
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness." — Elbert Hubbard
"Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness." — Aldous Huxley
"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future." — Steve Jobs
"I want to initiate a change in society in the long term." — Francois Hollande
"They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure." — James Allen
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." — E. B. White
"There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet." — Suzanne Fields
"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort." — C. J. Cherryh
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." — Ayn Rand
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." — Albert Einstein
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle." — Swami Sivananda
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." — Charles Spurgeon
"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient." — Ornette Coleman
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." — James Thurber
"When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism." — Cory Booker
"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men." — Isaac Asimov
"Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience." — Hillary Clinton
"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men." — King Hussein I
"There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions." — Michael Bloomberg
"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all." — Nicolas Chamfort
"Time makes more converts than reason." — Thomas Paine
"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature." — Josef Albers
"I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego." — Charisma Carpenter
"It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone." — Terry Pratchett
"My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety." — Michael Phelps
"The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done." — Brooke Burke
"Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts." — Phil Jackson
"By nature, men love newfangledness." — Geoffrey Chaucer
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance." — Alexander Pope
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Albert Schweitzer
"Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way." — Martin Scorsese
"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat." — Hank Aaron
"Remember we're all in this alone." — Lily Tomlin
"I don't have a saviour or a royal family." — John Malkovich
"Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" — Karen Armstrong
"I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best." — Wilbur Smith
"When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'" — Rico Rodriguez
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." — Orson Welles
"We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life." — George A. Smith
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away." — Robert Wyatt
"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated." — Thomas Bulfinch
"I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything." — Bo Jackson
"You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school." — Alan Alda
"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success." — Marquis de Sade
"I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young." — Emily Blunt
"To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously." — Jerry Saltz
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it." — Edward de Bono
"When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper." — Andrew Mason
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." — Aldous Huxley
"In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families." — Wangari Maathai
"There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman." — Carrie Chapman Catt
"The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps." — Julie Burchill
"The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors." — Kit Bond
"Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life." — Tyler Perry
"I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity." — J. K. Rowling
"It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed." — Andrew Greeley
"I am the government." — Andrew Cuomo
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good." — Henry Rollins
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." — George Bernard Shaw
"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting." — Winston Churchill
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." — Albert Einstein
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements." — Marcelene Cox
"For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them." — Theresa May
"Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets." — Jeff Goodell
"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." — Steve Jobs
"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved." — Hans Kung
"It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck." — Jeffrey Kluger
"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not." — Raoul Vaneigem
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness." — Erica Jong
"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish." — Miguel de Unamuno
"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it." — Samuel Goldwyn
"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life." — Brian Tracy
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." — Milton Friedman
"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way." — Orison Swett Marden
"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time." — Henry Ford
"I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims." — Francesca Annis
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul." — Luther Burbank
"The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented." — Hamid Karzai
"No emancipation without that of society." — Theodor Adorno
"God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God." — Desmond Tutu
"More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about." — John Hodgman
"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." — Barbara de Angelis
"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God." — Victor Hugo
"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are." — Mason Cooley
"There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down." — Joni Mitchell
"I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players." — Michael Michele
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life." — Edvard Munch
"How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?" — Michael Arad
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours." — Charles Caleb Colton
"I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith." — Mark Burnett
"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike." — Guy Lafleur
"I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport." — Anna Chlumsky
"Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." — John Bolton
"The 'public' scares me, but people I trust." — Marilyn Monroe
"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation." — Robert Morgan
"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing." — Penelope Cruz
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." — Jean-Luc Godard
"The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind." — A. N. Wilson
"Life well spent is long." — Leonardo da Vinci
"Courage is found in unlikely places." — J. R. R. Tolkien
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history." — Octavio Paz
"But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods." — Herodotus
"I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with." — Jordin Sparks
"I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?" — Robert M. Gates
"I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style." — Ellie Goulding
"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked." — Genevieve Gorder
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided." — Konrad Adenauer
"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's." — Carol P. Christ
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." — Lily Tomlin
"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children." — Robert Benchley
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." — William Morris
"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him." — Groucho Marx
"I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health." — John Cameron
"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future." — Eric Hoffer
"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination." — Derek Jacobi
"A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer." — Jesse Jackson
"The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain." — Mary Lynn Rajskub
"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music." — David Amram
"We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way." — Jennifer Garner
"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do." — Angelina Jolie
"If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff." — Chris Christie
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health." — Lord Chesterfield
"I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music." — Joaquin Phoenix
"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." — Charlie Parker
"Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get." — Alyssa Milano
"My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between." — Tony Visconti
"There is no such thing as part freedom." — Nelson Mandela
"It's about time that society accepts people for who they are." — Kesha
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it." — Walt Disney
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'" — Abigail Adams
"So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby." — Rick Baker
"While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war." — John Yoo
"The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep." — Jake Owen
"Information is not knowledge." — Albert Einstein
"The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know." — Alain Prost
"There's no religion but sex and music." — Sting
"Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom." — Rush Limbaugh
"Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs." — Martha Scott
"I have no wisdom to share on dating." — Rachel Dratch
"Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'" — Rodney Dangerfield
"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?" — Marquis de Sade
"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." — Mia Hamm
"Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity." — Andrew Cohen
"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift." — Wernher von Braun
"I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it." — Alberto Fujimori
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." — Quentin Crisp
"I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding." — Archie Panjabi
"My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education." — Melinda Gates
"History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice." — Will Durant
"Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?" — Paul Ryan
"I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer." — Jessica Simpson
"I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together." — Miranda Kerr
"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others." — Vincent Van Gogh
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes." — Oscar Wilde
"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it." — William Tecumseh Sherman
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society." — Noam Chomsky
"Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant." — Taylor Dayne
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think." — Dale Carnegie
"In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me." — Al Yankovic
"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." — Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did." — Grandmaster Flash
"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?" — John Trumbull
"I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you." — Imelda Staunton
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying." — Aldous Huxley
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." — Bruce Lee
"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs." — Joseph Conrad
"But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant." — Nicole Polizzi
"Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice." — Ricky Williams
"Expensive clothes are a waste of money." — Meryl Streep
"We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves." — Prince Philip
"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own." — Kurt Masur
"Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time." — Howard Dean
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much." — Ronald Reagan
"Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship." — Laura Riding
"I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad." — Rod Stewart
"I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free." — Iggy Pop
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count." — Holly Near
"I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said." — Lyn Nofziger
"Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust." — Gustav Heinemann
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist." — Richard Cobden
"You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine." — Francoise Sagan
"We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too." — Roger Ebert
"I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies." — Seann William Scott
"I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business." — Jack Kemp
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed." — Vincent Van Gogh
"Be obscure clearly." — E. B. White
"Junk food drags you down." — Miranda Lambert
"Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength." — Karen Armstrong
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them." — Georg C. Lichtenberg
"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!" — Noam Chomsky
"The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous." — Aldous Huxley
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do." — John Muir
"Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence." — Joe Baca
"The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product." — Frank Luntz
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war." — James Madison
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter." — David Duchovny
"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases." — John Ruskin
"I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more." — Thom Mayne
"Belief creates the actual fact." — William James
"While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage." — John Boehner
"Things are done according to money these days." — Shirley MacLaine
"I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun." — Lee Child
"I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem." — Jim Brown
"Money in politics is a huge issue." — Russ Feingold
"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks." — Francois Rabelais
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." — Carl Jung
"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength." — Michael Jordan
"I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing." — Katie Holmes
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." — Khalil Gibran
"Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home." — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
"I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'" — Sam Worthington
"If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account." — V. S. Naipaul
"Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important." — Jamie Moyer
"I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK." — Roger Goodell
"There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality." — Ellen Pompeo
"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion." — Maimonides
"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails." — Benazir Bhutto
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." — Daniel J. Boorstin
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." — Jean Kerr
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." — Nikos Kazantzakis
"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to." — Oscar Wilde
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder." — William Greider
"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid." — Rita Rudner
"Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged." — Fred Upton
"To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education." — John Dickey
"I've been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp I'm quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself." — T. E. Lawrence
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." — Confucius
"My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age." — Toby Keith
"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive." — John W. Gardner
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." — Henry David Thoreau
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." — Lou Holtz
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men." — Plato
"What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time." — Snoop Dogg
"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being." — Sigmund Freud
"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future." — Barbara Jordan
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." — Anais Nin
"I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in." — St. Vincent
"Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard." — Maria Bartiromo
"Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest." — Jerry Saltz
"I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man." — Kenny Loggins
"Happiness is the longing for repetition." — Milan Kundera
"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next." — Nora Ephron
"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight." — Milan Kundera
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." — Kin Hubbard
"I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die." — Brooke Shields
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." — Napoleon Hill
"I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard." — Krysten Ritter
"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." — Charles Spurgeon
"In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying." — Penelope Keith
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." — Henry David Thoreau
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation." — James A. Garfield
"You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education." — Donna Shalala
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable." — Soren Kierkegaard
"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes." — Marcia Cross
"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that." — Katie Ledecky
"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator." — Emo Philips
"My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags." — Danica Patrick
"I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time." — Hugh Jackman
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town." — Michael Ondaatje